Show threadjd 🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺🚀 & 👍🇺🇦🇵🇸+🇮🇷🇨🇺1d ago

Yesterday I posted this https://todon.eu/@jd/116357591067448343 Shanaka Anslem Perera Tw/X essay about the 1974 Kissinger deal with the Gulf Arab states to buy US Treasuries.

Today Bloomberg media reports the same...
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The Iran War Just Broke the Petrodollar (Bloomberg)
https://archive.ph/20260406041307/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-06/the-petrodollar-loop-supporting-the-treasury-market-is-broken
– 'The virtuous loop that has seen America underwrite stability in the Middle East in exchange for Gulf states recycling their dollar revenues into US Treasuries has been broken.
The understanding traces back to 1974, when Henry Kissinger struck one of the most consequential financial deals in modern history. Saudi Arabia would price its oil in dollars and park the surpluses in US assets — Treasuries above all. Other Gulf states followed. In exchange, America provided security guarantees and a stable global order.

The arrangement was elegant in its circularity: Oil consumers paid dollars for energy, those dollars flowed to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, and from there back into Washington’s debt. For 50 years, this petrodollar loop quietly subsidized American borrowing costs and cemented the greenback’s role as the world’s reserve currency.
The US-Israeli war with Iran has fractured this arrangement — at both ends...'

#UKpol #USpol #EUpol
#Capitalism #Dollar #Euro #Currency #Kissinger

Italian News by RSSMar 23

La Stampa - News, inchieste e approfondimenti La Stampa: Kissinger, il falco iraniano e la pace perpetua di Kant: quando la diplomazia esisteva ancora

Dal colloquio segreto tra Kissinger e Larijani alla crisi attuale: errori di intelligence e illusioni di regime change dietro l’escalation tra Usa, Iran e Israele

Kissinger, the Iranian Falcon and Perpetual Peace of Kant: When Diplomacy Still Existed

From the secret interview between Kissinger and Larijani to the current crisis: intelligence errors and illusions of regime change behind the escalation between the US, Iran, and Israel.

#Kissinger #theIranianFalcon #Larijani #Israel

https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2026/03/23/news/kissinger_il_falco_iraniano_e_la_pace_perpetua_di_kant_quando_la_diplomazia_esisteva_ancora-15557235/

Kissinger, il falco iraniano e la pace perpetua di Kant: quando la diplomazia esisteva ancora

Dal colloquio segreto tra Kissinger e Larijani alla crisi attuale: errori di intelligence e illusioni di regime change dietro l’escalation tra Usa, Iran e Isra…

La Stampa
aparatorulMar 21
Declaraţii îngrijorătoare: "Populaţia lumii trebuie REDUSĂ cu 50%. Numai aşa naţiunile vor intra în Noua Ordine Mondială" Zbigniew Brzezinski: „Astăzi este infinit mai ușor să omori un milion de oameni decât să controlezi un milion de oameni”. 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/r4rla 👈 #Grobaciov #HenryKissinger #Kissinger #MadeleineAlbright #NouaOrdineMondială #Rockeffeler #Roosevelt #ZbigniewBrzezinski
https://c.aparatorul.md/r4rla
Gerd_BrodowskiMar 20

#usa : #history / #foreignpolicy / #kissinger

(Who does that remind me of?)

„Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations Shed Light on Kissinger’s Foreign Policies, Strategies, Personality and Efforts to Deceive Colleagues and Journalists (...)

** Kissinger was a pathological liar (...): In his introduction, Wells cites a top Kissinger aide, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, as stating that “Henry does not lie because it is in his interest. He lies because it is in his nature.”

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile-cold-war-henry-kissinger-indonesia-southern-cone-vietnam/2026-03-19/kissinger

The Kissinger Tapes | National Security Archive

Washington, D.C., March 19, 2026 - On August 10, 1973, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger placed a call to Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to complain about U.S. officials who were participating in congressional hearings to investigate the secret bombing of Cambodia. As the Nixon administration’s cover up was unraveling, Kissinger was angry that “these @*%&* over there are acting as if it happened on the moon”; he demanded that Secretary Laird defend the original Nixon/Kissinger decision to launch clandestine attacks on Cambodia.

Fürth AktuellFeb 20

Transatlantisches Vermächtnis in Fürth: Henry-Kissinger-Stiftung geplant

https://fuerthaktuell.de/?p=9180

#fürth #münchen #bayern #landkreisfürth #henrykissinger #kissinger #stiftung #sicherheitskonferenz #msc #transatlantisch #diplomatie #außenpolitik #deutschamerikanisch #internationaleverständigung #forschung #franken #mittelfranken #news

Transatlantisches Vermächtnis in Fürth: Henry-Kissinger-Stiftung geplant

In Fürth wächst die Idee, dem international bekannten, 1923 in der Stadt geborenen ehemaligen US-Außenminister Henry Kissinger ein dauerhaftes Denkmal zu s...

Fürth Aktuell
Show threadDouglas Edwards Jan 20

More generally: the #Trumpezoids (I do not assume that the critical decisions are made by Trump as an individual) seem to think they can wield American imperial power to accomplish frivolous goals, in ways that would have appalled #Polk or #Seward or #McKinley or #Kissinger — and that power will emerge from their misadventures undiminished.

It won't.

YayaverJan 18

Uncover Nixon & Kissinger's shocking role in the 1971 Bangladesh genocide—ignoring warnings while backing Pakistan's massacres. Gary Bass's "The Blood Telegram" exposes it all via White House tapes. Must-read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18213097-the-blood-telegram

#Bangladesh #Genocide #Nixon #Kissinger #History

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten G…

A riveting history—the first full account—of the involv…

Goodreads
Show threadDouglas Edwards Jan 18
@mossyrua That scenario is consistent with the general concept that the current performance of the #USA economy is much closer to its theoretical optimum potential than is the case for the economy of #Europe. The #USA currently benefits from an intricate network of alliances accumulated by decades or even centuries of astute empire building by people like #Seward, #McKinley, #Kissinger, etc. Trump is now squandering that. Meanwhile, #Europe hasn't even truly unified itself. It has a cornucopia of unrealized advantages to be gained — like an alliance with #China.
Show threadDark and and StormyJan 17

@InfoMgmtExec @georgetakei Yes, since the 1960s  

Back then they added a brand new prize to their #Nobel ceremony, Economic Sciences, so they could promote captalism.

And a few years later, in 1973, they gave prizes to Heinz Alfred #Kissinger (Peace) and to Nazi scientist Konrad #Lorenz (Medicine), basically honoring the bloody influence that radical German ideas often do have on our world.

Show threadTrump & Epstein: Biz partners.Jan 16

@SueDiOh @noelreports
And I foolishly thought the #Nobel Committee awarding the #NPP to Henry #Kissinger was the most ludicrous decision they'd ever make and give them added pause when vetting nominees in the future.

NOPE. 🤦‍♂️ #Machado #Venezuela #NobelPeacePrize